Cultural Vision and the Human Future

Our cultural malaise reflects the inadequacy of a civilization which is directed solely to material improvement in order to satisfy the yearning of the human spirit. The values of the industrial civilization, having affected material advancement, gradually lose the self-evident justification contained therein during past times. (Source: ERIC)

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Robert BellahUniversity of California, BerkeleyE-mail AuthorRobert N. Bellah is Ford Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies and chairman of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial, Tokugawa Religion, and with Charles Glock is editor of The New Religious Consciousness.